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Sun Refuses LGPL for OpenOffice; Novell forks

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the there-is-no-dept dept.

TRS-80 writes "Kohei Yoshida wrote a long post on the history of Calc Solver, an optimization solver module for the Calc component of OpenOffice.org. After three years of jumping through Sun's hoops on his own time, Sun says it will duplicate the work because Kohei doesn't want to sign over ownership of the code. Adding insult to injury, Sun then invites him join this duplication. Because of Sun's refusal to accept LPGL extensions in the upstream code, Michael Meeks (who recently talked about Sun's OO.o community failings, and ODF and OOXML) has announced ooo-build (previously just for build fixes) is now a formal fork of OpenOffice to be located at http://go-oo.org/. "

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  1. With apologies by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 5, Funny

    to Michael Jackson and Weird Al Yankovich:

    They told him, we don't your code around here
    Don't wanna see your source, make it disappear
    The license they don't like, and they made that clear
    So fork it, Just fork it.

    You better take your code, better do what you can
    Don't wanna see it die, 'cause Sun wanna be da man!
    You wanna own your code, better do what you can
    So fork it, but you don't wanna be mad

    Just fork it, fork it, fork it, fork it
    No wants this to get too heated
    Show 'em the way to free code that's right
    It doesn't matter how the code comes to light
    Just fork it, Fork it
    Just fork it, Fork it
    Just fork it, Fork it
    Just fork it, Fork it

    They won't take your code, best to leave while you can
    Don't wanna fight with Sun, you wanna be da man
    You wau wanna keep the code alive, just do what you can
    So fork it, Just fork it,

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    My blog
  2. Re:And we think EULA's are bad by cheater512 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sun is a big corporation?

  3. Wait... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    So Novell are the good guy now? Or they... wait... no they're with Microsoft. Sun is against Microsoft, but can't accept upstream changes under LGPL... so Novell is forking... and... and...

    **head explodes**

  4. go-oo.org? by blind+biker · · Score: 2, Funny

    I have issues with that domain name.

    --
    "The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam" - Japanese ministry official.
  5. Re:When will people learn? by El_Muerte_TDS · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes it is. Listen to your parent, didn't they teach you to respect your parent?

  6. Re:Conspiracy theory - MS behind all this? by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 2, Funny

    What more do you need as proof? Do they have to use a pair of rusty pliers to put Miguel in his place when he mouths off about something inane (as per usual?) Yes, please.
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    My blog
  7. Re:When will people learn? by iworm · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yes it is.... Is this the five minute argument or the full course of ten?

  8. Re:When will people learn? by hawk · · Score: 2, Funny

    Remember the Novell Vice President: "If you care what I say, you have no girlfriend".

    I suspect he believes this goes both ways, Does that mean no boyfriend, either? :)

    hawk